Check in: Are you having fun?
How’s your summer going? Are you taking some leisure time? Getting in some play time? Are you in summertime mode yet? Would love to hear on the comments below! Where I live in the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle area, we have had an amazing summer this year. Not too hot (until this week!) and no rain for quite a while. As summer keeps moving along, I find myself assessing if I’m really staying in balance in my life. Now, many of you know, I’m a big summer fan, which for me translates into “let’s play.”…
How’s your summertime mode?
I’m a big fan of summertime mode and I encourage you to be too! To be in summertime mode doesn’t mean you have to love sitting on a beach and baking in the sun, but it does mean you can be open to having more fun and free time instead of being glued in work mode. It means capturing your own inner child’s spirit, you know that part of you who loves to play, daydream, not be on an agenda and living life as though each moment contains new possibilities! Hmm…sounds like a recipe for…
When is the last time you played like a kid?
In our busy, 24/7 connected modern lives, the focus tends to sway heavily on work and family commitments and taking time for pure fun seems to be something we remember we once did, but no longer do! Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we’ve stopped playing. But just because we’re adults, that doesn’t mean we have to take ourselves so seriously and make life all about work. We all need to play. The late A. Bartlett Giamatti, former president of Yale University and one-time commissioner of Major League Baseball said, “You can learn more about a…
The Stress Relief Specialist Gets Stressed!
Stress-I have to confess, I had 2 incidents recently that really stressed me out. Hint: look for the Tip included! Yup, the Stress Relief Specialist got stressed out-enough so that I was in tears as I tried to explain a technical problem to someone who might help me. I’ll just tell you about the one that hit me the hardest. I had some serious issues with technology that affected how people signing up for my free gifts were getting them or weren’t as it turned out. They were suppose to immediately get a letter with…
Summertime mode is back!
Yeah, it’s Summer! It’s my favorite time of the year! Somehow, no matter how long I’ve been around on the planet, and even though I no longer get an entire summer off like when I was in school, I still relate to summer as playtime, fun in the sun time, being outdoors and relaxing time. I associate summer with time for leisure, time for letting go of the big to-do list and time that just disappears….. I have happy memories of summertime where I grew up on Long Island being carefree and indulging in creative…
Happy Father’s Day!
So often, the subject of being overwhelmed and #stressed out is targeted to women, who seem to be the ones who are the most stressed, overwhelmed, over scheduled and not taking care of themselves but don’t ever miss out on taking care of others. All this is true and I like to focus my attention to women who do seem to be in a greater need to hear the messages of self care and have tools to support them. Yet, With #Father’s Day coming up this weekend, I know there are many dads/men who also…